WHY DO THE GABONESE PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE (Part 1)? POURQUOI LE PEUPLE GABONAIS DOIT-IL VIVRE DANS UN UNIVERS PARALLÈLE (Première partie)?

A parallel universe refers to a situation where alternative realities are coexisting side by side with the real rational world. This blog believes that Gabon is indeed a parallel universe because of the constant barrage of political bullshit the Gabonese people are asked to accept as truth. Regularly, in Gabon, thinking people are asked to temporarily suspend all beliefs and accept to being transported to an alternative reality that tells them that Ali Bongo was elected by the people; that 116 MPs of a single party out of a total of 120 is a normal parliamentarian ratio in a democratic country; and oh by the way, the Sylvia Bongo Foundation was just exchanging innocent emails with the China Road and Bridge Corporation. In the rational world, all these facts would be very alarming; but in Gabon, we are asked to applaud them, even to ask for more since after all is well in Gabon and there are no problems, except that blogs like ours are just jealous of the lightning fast progress the country is making under Ali Bongo. Dear readers, didn’t we warn you that you were living in a parallel universe?

Case in point, in the real word Ali Bongo has just made a world class short list. The shortlist of the 8 richest dictators. This list is compiled by Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Inc., is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and best known for its web portal, search engine a variety of other services, including Yahoo Finance. About 700 million people visit Yahoo Web portal every month and its revenues are about $ 5 billion a year, about the budget of Gabon. At the time of the writing of this post, its stock price is at about $19 per share. Dear readers, we give you all this information to let you know that yahoo is a serious company. Do you think that this information would apear in the official Gabonese press that peddle the alternate reality?

In introducing its article about the 8 richest dictators, Yahoo Finance says the following:

“What happens when you are an autonomous entity who happens to be in the middle of prime infrastructure and oil deals? What if there were no checks and balances or a system that ensures public funds land where they should? What if you were given unlimited political authority with no elected bodies to report to? This would make you a dictator. You could choose to be a benevolent dictator or a selfish one. Most dictators, past and present, chose the latter.”

This paragraph fits the description of what is happening in Gabon and has been happening for 45 years, like a glove. In the rest of the world, especially the free world, this situation is known to be unacceptable because it would be inadmissible for the majority of the people to live under the diktat of a single person or a single family; but in Gabon, people are asked to accept these inhumane conditions and better yet they are asked to be grateful for these inhumane conditions. The Gabonese people are truly confined into a parallel universe in that what is deemed abnormal to the world is consider normal in Gabon and vice versa. Let us apply Yahoo’s definition of a dictatorship to the situation in Gabon:

1. Isn’t Ali Bongo just like his father was before him, an autonomous entity who happens to be in the middle of prime infrastructure and oil deals? Absolutely! How is Ali Bongo handling Gabonese natural resources? How is Ali Bongo distributing the Gabonese rain forest?

2. In Gabon, are there checks and balances or a system that ensures public funds land where they should? Absolutely not! Ali Bongo authorizes all kinds of expenditures without the benefit of any oversight. Even the agencies he created only answer to him are under no obligation to report their activities to any other government body.

3. Doesn’t Ali Bongo have unlimited political authority with no elected bodies to report to? Absolutely! He answers to no one in Gabon!

When these 3 conditions are met, Yahoo concludes that there is a dictatorship. Therefore, Gabon is an absolute dictatorship. Then, why are some people trying to pretend that all is well in Gabon? That institutions are functioning in Gabon? That the Gabonese people have to accept the notion of a parallel universe where what is true outside would be considered untrue inside? Only in a parallel universe could a stolen election be declared democratic; only in a parallel universe could it be accepted that the organization of a series of forums would develop the country just by magic; only in a parallel universe is it no longer possible to ask whatever happened to the 5000 housing unit a year that were promised? In a parallel universe, old certainties no longer stand and even the idea of universal human rights can be questioned as we all found out when a young lady who dies by asphyxiation by police tear gas was declared to have died of natural causes and where the massacre of Port-Gentil was swept under the rug.

This is the beginning of a series of Post where this blog will explore the Gabonese parallel universe

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